Show Summary

Adam takes a call from Susie Essman at the top of the show. They talk briefly about Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the experience of working with Larry David. Adam then has Susie put her husband on the line so he can quiz him on his tool knowledge. Later, Adam rants about the song ‘Harper Valley PTA,’ and its super dumb lyrics.

Next up, comedian Dave Hill enters the studio. Adam talks with him about his contributions to This American Life, working at a homeless shelter, and crashing at Moby’s house. Alison starts up the news by discussing another musician-politician clash. They also talk about a toddler fight club, Jeffrey Dahmer’s childhood house up for sale, and a new memoir that claims abuse during Dancing with the Stars. Along the way they also discuss Dave’s standup performance in Sing Sing, and terrible construction worker murder. As the show wraps up, Adam recalls the brutal street brawl he was in.

Hearing Dave Hill’s story about the crackhead stealing meat – I used to work at a printer that was a few blocks away from a homeless center. Once every 3 months some shady guys would drive up in an unmarked van and try to sell us packaged meats at incredible prices. Now I know where they got it from.

Bald Bryan’s breakdown of the Harper Valley song was quality. Not just the idea that she made a mistake out of repetition but that Bryan figured they actually caught the mistake, asked her to do another take, and she refused. Hilarious.

I’ve been listening to this show for a long time, and this was quite possibly the best episode I’ve ever heard. Both guests were awesome. When Dawson had to use a long pause to come up with Carl then Hendershot I literally fell over I was laughing so hard

So obvious that “Harper” was the long timer family after which the valley was named.

…and Limbaugh, far from having a song picked by his producer, was a former DJ and big time music follower until he went Deaf.

One of the 7 times he was fired was for not following the required music rotation, instead throwing in a Stones song that he particularly liked, or whatever, every once in a while.

…started in radio at 16.

Was making $12,000/year at age 28:

“For the rest of the decade Limbaugh took jobs at several radio stations, working in music radio, before settling in Kansas City. In 1979, he left radio and accepted a position as director of promotions with the Kansas City Royals baseball team.

There he developed a close friendship with then-Royals star third baseman and future Hall of Famer George Brett; the two remain close friends.” (wiki)

He credits Brett with helping him learn whats involved with winners/winning.

Perhaps slavery has some involvement with it’s history, then made ten times worse by the Welfare state that broke up the Black Family such that fatherless homes became the norm.

Which is now spreading to other cultures following feminism and other liberal redefinitions of reality following the takeover of public education, Hollywood, and the mainstream media by the religion of the left.

I remember Adam complaining about people saying “Curb” instead of the whole name of the show (Curb Your Enthusiasm). Like, calling them a douche bag that has to some esoteric term for the show just because they’re into it.Funny how he fell right into saying it…

This was a sweet show. Maybe one of the best Ive ever listened to. I ran through it twice and laughed just as much the second time. Dave Hill, very funny. Gotta get Dana Gould in there more often as well. Thanks guys. Alison, always a pleasure.

But whites make up 70% of the US population vs. Afr/Ams at about 13 or 14%, so still disproportionately high. Don’t agree with the Ace Man on the reason for the disproportionate number, but it is there.

Shouldn’t people be happy when stereotypes are so far off? C’mon, look at it through the glasses of Mr. Brightside.

Or learn how to research. The following is from the Bureau of Justice Statistics website, which doesn’t just count the Federal Prison population. I don’t know about putting a link on here but I found this on Google in 9000ths of a second.

Appendix Table 13. Estimated number of sentenced prisoners under state and federal jurisdiction, by sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age, December 31, 2010

ACE – we’re on the same wavelength a lot of the time. It happened again today – when i was returning from lunch I heard Harper Valley PTA on Sirius & wondered to myself the same questions about Mr. Harper when mentioned in the song. 5 min. later I got to work & threw on the podcast as usual & you guys are talking about the same thing! Are you monitoring me “Getting It On”? If so, please continue.

That episode was awesome! I’m with Adam, the Harper name makes the song confusing, even though Dawson’s explanation makes sense. Way to “shit on his point though”. Alison’s guitar lick with Adam saying “but that sounds like shit” was freakin hiLARious! I’m still laughing. One of the best episodes ever!

Great idea DukeLacrosse! When Bryan was dropping Alison’s version of a guitar riff (I was laughing like a lunatic), coupled with her “I’ve got something in my butt”, I thought the same thing: ring tone!

Around ’87 or so, Tammy Faye Bakker recorded a take-off on “Harper Valley PTA” (“The Ballad of Jim and Tammy”) with new lyrics about how their evangelical empire was stolen by Jerry Falwell. It is way, way dumber than the original song (and somehow manages to avoid mentioning the whole Jessica Hahn thing). If you can find the segment from the Howard Stern Show where they listen to it and dissect the lyrics–with Gilbert Gottfried sitting in, no less–I highly recommend it…

My husband and I never miss a podcast. We loved Dave Hill and hope he’s a frequent guest. We also enjoy David Wild and his amazing knowledge of music and the music industry. Much love to Adam, Alison, Bryan and the rest of the crew. Keep up the good work!

Hill was very good . It was nice to hear more than a 5 minute crap interview then more of Adam’s tiresome repetitive rants. Hill had good stories which could be discussed with Adam. What a concept to let an interesting entertaining guest speak!

Alison is a star! She can shred on the mouth-guitar. Dave Hill…how have I never heard of this guy? He’s wicked funny. And bald’s drops were great. Best show ever…and if Shek would’ve been on this one, the internets might have exploded from WIN! Shek everyday Ace man!